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01Kaminski Ch01 1-396.Qxd The Thoughts and Words of Thomas Jefferson Advice s You will perceive by my preaching that I am grow­ ing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of its motives. To Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., Paris, November 25, 1785 The greatest favor which can be done me is the communication of the opinions of judicious men, of men who do not suffer their judgments to be biased by either interest or passions. To Chandler Price, Washington, February 28, 1807 Your situation, thrown at such a distance from us, & alone, cannot but give us all great anxieties for you. As much has been secured for you, by your particular position and the acquaintance to which you have been recommended, as could be done to­ wards shielding you from the dangers which sur­ round you. But thrown on a wide world, among entire strangers, without a friend or guardian to ad­ vise, so young too, & with so little experience of mankind, your dangers are great, & still your safety must rest on yourself. A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence and good humor, will go 4 thoughts and words of thomas jefferson far towards securing to you the estimation of the world. To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Washington, November 24, 1808 How easily we prescribe for others a cure for their difficulties, while we cannot cure our own. To John Adams, Monticello, January 22, 1821 Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. To Thomas Jefferson Smith, Monticello, February 21, 1825 Consultation I have found in the course of our joint services that I think right when I think with you. To John Adams, Paris, July 7, 1785 Setting an Example View, in those whom you see, patients to be cured of what is amiss by your example, encourage in them that simplicity which should be the ornament of their country; in fine, follow the dispositions of your own native benevolence & sweetness of temper, and you will be happy & make them so. To Madame de Bréhan, Paris, May 9, 1788 I have ever deemed it more honorable, & more prof­ itable too, to set a good example than to follow a bad advice 5 one. The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. To José Correa da Serra, Monticello, December 27, 1814 Suggestions Suggestion and fact are different things. To the Marquis de Lafayette, Monticello, August 4, 1781 As I know from experience that profitable sugges­ tions sometimes come from lookers on, they may be usefully tolerated, provided they do not pretend to the right of an answer. To Unknown, 1813 Ten Canons for Practical Life Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life 1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 6 thoughts and words of thomas jefferson 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. To Thomas Jefferson Smith, Monticello, February 21, 1825 Agriculture s I am never satiated with rambling through the fields and farms, examining the culture and cultivators, with a degree of curiosity which makes some to take me for a fool and others to be much wiser than I am. To the Marquis de Lafayette, April 11, 1787 A steady application to agriculture with just trade enough to take off its superfluities is our wisest course. To Wilson Miles Cary, Paris, August 12, 1787 The pursuits of Agriculture [are] the surest road to affluence and best preservative of morals. To John Blair, Paris, August 13, 1787 Agriculture . is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals & happiness. The moderate & sure in­ come of husbandry begets permanent improvement, agriculture 7 quiet life, and orderly conduct both public and pri­ vate. We have no occasion for more commerce than to take off our superfluous produce. To George Washington, Paris, August 14, 1787 I return to farming with an ardor which I scarcely knew in my youth, and which has got the better en­ tirely of my love of study. Instead of writing 10 or 12 letters a day, which I have been in the habit of doing as a thing of course, I put off answering my letters now, farmer-like, till a rainy day, & then find it sometimes postponed by other necessary occupa­ tions. To John Adams, Monticello, April 25, 1794 This first & most precious of all the arts. To Robert R. Livingston, Philadelphia, April 30, 1800 The class principally defective is that of agriculture. It is the first in utility & ought to be the 1st in respect. The same artificial means which have been used to produce a competition in learning may be equally suc­ cessful in restoring agriculture to its primary dignity in the eyes of men. It is a science of the very first order. It counts among its handmaids the most respectable sciences, such as chemistry, natural philosophy, me­ chanics, mathematics generally, natural history, botany. In every college & university, a professorship of Agriculture, & the class of its students, might be honored as the first. To David Williams, Washington, November 14, 1803 8 thoughts and words of thomas jefferson Attached to agriculture by inclination as well as by a conviction that it is the most useful of the occupa­ tions of man, my course of life has not permitted me to add to its theories the lessons of practice. To M. Silvestre, secretary of the Agricultural Society of Paris, Washington, May 29, 1807 About to be relieved from this corvée* by age and the fulfillment of the quadragena stipendia,** what remains to me of physical activity will chiefly be em­ ployed in the amusements of agriculture. Having lit­ tle practical skill, I count more on the pleasures than the profits of that occupation. *servitude; forced labor **forty years’ service To Charles Philbert Lasteryrie-du Saillant, Washington, July 15, 1808 No sentiment is more acknowledged in the family of Agriculturalists than that the few who can afford it should incur the risk & expense of all new improve­ ments, & give the benefit freely to the many of more restricted circumstances. To President James Madison, Monticello, May 13, 1810 The spontaneous energies of the earth are a gift of na­ ture, but they require the labor of man to direct their operation. And the question is so to husband his labor as to turn the greatest quantity of the earth to his ben­ efit. Ploughing deep, your recipe for killing weeds is also the recipe for almost every good thing in farming. agriculture 9 The plow is to the farmer what the wand is to the sor­ cerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. In the country wherein I live, we have discovered a new use for it, equal in value to its services before known. Our coun­ try is hilly and we have been in the habit of ploughing in strait rows whether up or down hill, in oblique lines, or however they lead, and our soil was all rapid­ ly running into the rivers. We now plough horizontal­ ly following the curvatures of the hills and hollows on the dead level, however crooked the lines may be. Every furrow thus acts as a reservoir to receive and retain the waters, all of which go to the benefit of the growing plant instead of running off into streams. To Charles Willson Peale, March 17, 1813 Farmers Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of god, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782 Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citi­ zens. They are the most vigorous, the most indepen­ dent, the most virtuous, & they are tied to their country & wedded to its liberty & interests by the most lasting bands. To John Jay, Paris, August 23, 1785 The cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous citizens and possess most of the amor patriae.* 10 thoughts and words of thomas jefferson Merchants are the least virtuous, and possess the least of the amor patriae. *love of one’s country; patriotism To Jean Nicolas Démeunier, January 24, 1786 Ours are the only farmers who can read Homer. To St. John de Crèvecoeur, Paris, January 15, 1787 Have you become a farmer? Is it not pleasanter than to be shut up within 4 walls and delving eternally with the pen? I am become the most ardent farmer in the state. I live on my horse from morning to night almost. To Henry Knox, Monticello, June 1, 1795 I am entirely a farmer, soul and body, never scarcely admitting a sentiment on any other subject. To Thomas Pinckney, Monticello, September 8, 1795 If a debt is once contracted by a farmer, it is never paid but by a sale. To Mary Jefferson Eppes, Philadelphia, January 7, 1798 The truth is that farmers, as we all are, have no com­ mand of money.
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